Babus retirement age set to go up
Babus retirement age set to go up
The top two officials in the state administration, chief secretary, Mr S.V. Prasad, and the director-general of police, Mr K. Aravinda Rao, will benefit from the Centre’s decision to set the retirement age for civil servants at 62 years from the present 60 years. Mr Aravinda Rao was due to retire in June and the chief secretary in September.
Sources told this newspaper that the Cabinet subcommittee of the Union government gave its nod for enhancing the retirement age, and orders amending the service rules are expected much before the retirement of the two officials. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, was keen to enhance the retirement age of bureaucrats.
Sources said that though the proposal is ready for implementation, there will be a few months’ delay because the government wants to make Mr Pulok Chatterjee the new Cabinet secretary at the Centre and prefers to wait for bureaucrats senior to him to retire before it makes the announcement.
Mr Chatterjee had earlier worked with the UPA chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, and is considered a natural choice to take over from the incumbent Mr K.M. Chandrasekhar. “There are a few bureaucrats senior to Mr Chatterjee and the Centre will wait for their retirement in April,” explained a senior official.
Back here in the state, the government will be keen to retain the services of Mr Prasad and Mr Aravinda Rao who have proved to be assets when the state is passing through turbulent times. The former chief minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, appointed the two officials to the top posts and his successor Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy did not make any changes. Another senior bureaucrat, Ms Janaki Kondapi, will also benefit from the change in the new retirement age as she is due for retirement in the next few months.
Source: Deccan Chronicle
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THERE IS NO NEED FOR ENHANCING RETIREMENT AGE. TOP EXECUTIVES OF MULTINATIONALS ARE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS ONLY. WE HAVE PLENTY OF YOUNG IAS OFFICERS WHO COULD MAKE IT BIG. IF SOME ONE MAKES THIS NEWS AS THE BASIS FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION ON THE DELAY TO FAVOUR SOME ONE, THEN THE GOVT WILL BE IN DOLDRUMS.
A. Increase the average of the CG Employees ( Since there are allegations about slow movement of files in various departments).
B. Avenues for unemployed youth in the CG service would shrink down at least for two years.
C. Barring a few cases CG services are mostly guided by rules and guidelines as issued by the appropriate authorities from time to time. Hence there remains very limited scope to apply research and knowledge addition like professors in Colleges and Universities. So it would create frustration among official in the pipeline, who could contribute better on given opportunity.
D. Technology is the thumb rule of the day. The primary objective CG services are to serve the target section of public in a better way. In most of the cases senior servants ( With due respect) are in the back seat, as far as quick adoption of technology id concerned. This put unnecessary breaks in the overall process of development and implementation of programs at the desired level.
Of course the points made above are not beyond debate, but logically acceptable and convincing.
This decision is really misuse of their powers.
here babus are earn more money with hopeless power, which also restrict pregress.
2. Will the buerocrats like to retire after the age of 62 years?